This policy was subsequently enhanced with the imposed state-con­struc­tion out of nothing that became the First Republic (”die Republik die keiner wollte”), which only reluctantly was setting its eyes on a mo­dern government form, such as we know it from the rest of Europe, made from a decaying empire as it was. Before the black and blue came into power, the Second Republic, which was devised by the same persons who thought out the first one, was always characterised by the political bureaucratic power distribution policy of the SPÖ and the ÖVP (the Proporz-system).